[4294] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: more DPT trouble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Jul 5 13:12:33 1998
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 13:10:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "Larry M. Augustin" <lma@varesearch.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199807051700.KAA23308@var2.varesearch.com>
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Larry M. Augustin wrote:
> The 2.0.34-pre6 kernel shipped with RH5.1 will not work with most PCI
> SCSI controllers and the 440BX chipset. In the 2.0.34 pre-releases,
> the Cyrix initialization code steps on registers used by the BX
> chipset. This is fixed in the 2.0.34 final release.
That seems to only be part of the problem. Since moving the DPT to
another system, I got it working well enough to format the array, but it's
not stable. It looks like the problem may be the RAM on the card.
Finding 16mb true parity simms thin enough to fit the card hasn't been
easy.
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